The singing part was easy. When you are growing up as one of seven kids in a small Queensland town and all the siblings could sing, you had to fight to get a solo. Why did I learn to play the guitar? To get out of doing the washing up for such a large brood. But to sing and play was never enough, I was always concerned that they were not listening. So entertaining came naturally. Stand on ya head. Anything to get their attention.

Musicians think from the guitar out to the audience. I was always more concerned with what the audience was thinking, so playing the correct chords was not so important. And so it went. Rockhampton to England. Lessons in the preservation of my natural accent from Val Doonican. Six hours a day guitar practice. Then back home, where I met the old lady pianist who did not know what her left hand was for. She said "I just do this...plonk, plonk, plonk". So the guitar became my instrument.

Then one night at Fairfield RSL in Sydney, the sound whistled through the whole performance, so I took lessons in Sound Engineering. At Maroubra I wrote my first production called 'Thank You Very Much' and I invented a set that rotated and became four different scenes on one stage. Just push, and there we were....Piccadilly Circus London. So I designed scenery. She was wearing a dress which went all the way to the floor, so I said I want it to be more sexy. I reached out and pulled the front of the dress up to her waist and said "Pin it here". So I was a costume designer. The clubs in Sydney were like plastecine to a four year old. All the old gags like "Sean you have lost a sock"....."No. I found one". When the bloke at 2SM Radio Station threw my first album in the waste paper basket, I was determined never to ask anyone for anything ever again.

I went on to record 16 albums, had a 10 album deal with SONY Music, 2 number 1 singles and 4 hit records, 287 television appearances and 1500 Concerts. My recording career was booming, so we opened the 'Blue Gum Theatre'. And blow me down, I was a Producer, created in the school of Hard Knocks. I wrote and directed 9 complete Musical Theatre Productions. Nearly killed myself with the effort, and I would not do it again.

Then came "Bluey's Down Under" in Darling Harbour Sydney. We built a 400 seater theatre. I stopped the show one night to yell at a waiter because a customer was waiting for a drink. Whoops!

The owner of "Captain Cook Cruises" then asked me to write and produce shows for his venues on water. I took over all aspects of Show Business and became the 'Entertainment Director'. And became responsible for giving work to Musicians, Dancers, Singers, Sight Acts and Magicians. As a matter of fact, it is the only time in my life where I regularly reported to a boss, but I enjoyed the position very much. So I spent the last 15 years writing and producing shows on the magnificent Sydney 2000 ship for visitors to Australia. It began with my production of "Under The Southern Cross", which ran for over seven years. Sometimes extremely successful, and at times very funny.

I recently recorded a CD called "The Grandfather Singer" aimed at small children and their grandparents. The scene is set in the swamp in a town called Mackay, in Northern Queensland in Australia. The melodies of the songs were written by Francisco Gabilondo Soler, a famed Mexican Songwriter. The songs recorded in Spanish, to date have sold in excess of thirty million copies. I was invited to interpret these lyrics in to English by Professor Adelina Arredondo from the University of Moreles State of Mexico. This is the first exposure of these songs in English. To accompany my CD I also wrote a book called "The Land of Imaginitis"s. It came about because my daughter, Tracy, complained that she could not drag her children away from the computer, so that I could involve the parents in bedtime with their offspring. The book includes the lyrics for the songs. The idea being that the parent reads the story from the book, they play the songs while parent and child sing along together. The response to the album and book has been outstanding so far. And the interest in my product from America is very exciting!

So here we go again. Or as Willie Nelson said: "Its been rough and rocky travellin', but I am finally standin' upright on the ground And after taking several readings, I am surprised to find my minds still fairly sound."